Targeted cancer therapy
Subtitle: a handbook for nurses
By: Gail M. Wilkes.
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sudbury, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780763772116
Subjects: Cancer -- Nursing; Drug targeting; Cancer -- Cytopathology; Cancer -- Molecular aspects; Neoplasms -- drug therapy -- Nurses' Instruction; Drug Delivery Systems -- methods -- Nurses' Instruction; Neoplasms -- nursing; Neoplasms -- physiopathology -- Nurses' Instruction; Signal Transduction -- drug effects -- Nurses' Instruction
Genres: Nurses' Instruction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cancer biology, signaling pathways, and malignant transformation; title: Targeted cancer therapy : external and internal signaling pathway targets; title: Tumor vasculature; title: Targeting the microenvironment : bone metastases, apoptosis, DNA repair, and mitosis; title: Challenges in caring for patients receiving targeted therapies.